Consumer purchasing power picks up in 1997. (Canada)(Frank Talk on the Economy)(Column)

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The coming year promises to bring as a great deal of uncertainty as we've seen
in 1996 and the sources of that uncertainty will remain a great deal of the
same. First, there is the sight of rising U.S. interest rates and
the question of the expansion to which Canada will have to over-compensate
for these increases. next to the first there is the impact of cyclopean numbers of
unemployed clan who are hoping for piece of works The third source of uncertainty
is a political revolution of time in which we face a federal election along with
possible further puzzles on the constitutional front.

However, along with the uncertainty